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I dunno about the rest of you guys here but this looks very interesting to me despite one of the characters looking similar to a certain Haruhi. Anything that is Key or semi-Key related, I'm there. There's been mention that the other character looks like Nagato, I don't see the resemblance between the two. I mean, maybe the eyes but they still look totally different to me. Well whatever... I look forward to this when it airs.

Why are Haruhi fans getting so butthurt over a similar character design to Haruhi.. when freaking Nagato Yuuki is a dead ringer for Rei Ayanami. And they are even the same character archetype which you can't say for the "ripoff" in Angel Beats... at least for now.

Why are Haruhi fans getting so butthurt over a similar character design to Haruhi.. when freaking Nagato Yuuki is a dead ringer for Rei Ayanami. And they are even the same character archetype which you can't say for the "ripoff" in Angel Beats... at least for now.

Haruhi is supposed to be this huge sendup of cliched anime characters and tropes. It's also primarily a comedy.

Besides, Yuki looks nothing like Rei except for the general hair shape. (Different builds, etc.) This girl, on the other hand, well, is pretty much recolored Haruhi from what we can see. The way she's described makes her sound exactly like Haruhi, as well. And then there's the whole "SSS" thing...

This honestly looks more like a ripoff than a parody. Parodies are usually comedic, and this does not look comedic.

However, even then, this will still be great because it's written by Jun Maeda. I'm watching it.

Because it's the way of the Internets for people to jump to snap conclusions based off of preliminary and superficial data.

As for me, I don't care at all whether there's an once of originality in it, as long as it's enjoyable. I feel like if originality was important to me, I would have stopped being a fan a long time ago.

It's called a "mixed media" project, which means that it was designed from conception to be released in multiple forms at once (unlike the traditional style where you have one medium first and other "adaptations"). You can be sure, given the producers, that there will at least be an anime, a manga series, and a ton of CDs released. We don't yet know what other forms of media will be included; a game would certainly make sense, but time will tell...